Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-18
ME-. DICKsON's REMOVAL.

daft over - removal of Governor Muir
ray, and edicted the overthrow OF the
loyal cause nd the continuance indefn-
itely OF Chu - and State rule in Utah.
The courSo Governor West had to
certain extent brought the r. o. to its
senses, when is brain was again upset
by the news tha1 the Democratic Admin
istration had concluded to accept
the resignation OF he Republican Dis
trict Attorney who lad held his Office for
upwards of two years gfter the Inaugural
ton of a Democratic President. The
R. o. gives away its entire case when it
that in politics the party in power has
control, and that it is its right to use its
own friends in, conducting the affairs of
the Government" 1t claims, how
ever, that a frank communication
should have been sent to Mr..
Dickson stating that his place was
wanted for Democrat, in which case no
one would have mad a word to say.
While neither Republican nor Demo
cratic ethics admit of such explanation in
so many words, the fact that no other
reason is assigned is regarded by all SEN
sible persons as conclusive evidence that
the removal is made for that cause This
is precisely the cause of the removal of
NJ Dickson, although his self-con-
stituted champion would fain make it
appear that the action of the Administra
ton involves causes which leave cloud
resting over the personal and official
character of the gentleman removed.
We should Judge that Dir. Dickson would
not elicit much comfort from such
championship. The allusion to Mr..
Fisher, the agent sent here by
the Department of Justice to inves-
tigate certain charges against the
District Attorneys Office, based upon
alleged matters relating exclusively to
civil business and entirely disconnected
with the prosecution of violators of the
Enmunds law, is as silly and absurd as
it is unjust to Mr.. Dickson himself. If
the charges were proven, they would in
themselves have been sufficient to justify
ocrat, and had in all other respects con-
Quoted his Office with the honesty
and efficiency with which he
is credited by his political op-
ponents as we'll as by his
Republican friends. But the fact is, Mr..
Fisher has not made any report of the
result of his investigation, so it is impos-
sible that the agent ''who evidently
came here with orders to find enough to
justify the putting out of Utah Office
holders" could have had any
thing whatever to do with the
removal, and its attribution to
that source is reflection
upon Mr. Dickson, not warranted by the
facts, and which no really sincere friend
of the gentleman-of ordinary common
sense-would for moment entertain in
connection with the subject matter. The
reference to Mr.. Lamar, the Secretary of
the Interior, is equally ridiculous. His
Department is as entirely disconnected
with the Department of Justice, which is
under the entire supervision of
Mr.. Garland, the Attorney General,
as it is separate from the financial depart
ment, controlled by the Secretary OF the
Treasury. Mr.. Garland is not the style
of man who would tolerate any interfer-
enee with the duties and responsibility of
his department by any other Cabinet
officer, and it is quite certain that the
Secretary of the Interior had no more
hand in the removal of Mr.. Dick
son, than had Commissioner Sparks of
the Land office, or Mr.. Villas of the
Postoffice Department. The prediction
by the r. 0. that hereafter there will
be only a show of executing the laws in
Utah" is evidently fathered by the wish.
That it wants nothing effected here
under a Democratic Administration, or
at least by Democratic officials, is evil
denced by its attempts to discourage
its readers from expecting anything
from any Democrat who succeeds to a
Federal Office made vacant by the re-
moval of Republican. 1t was so in the
cases of Governor West and Marshal
Dyer, the courses OF both of whom have
merited and received the appreciation Of
the unselfshly and really sim
cerely loyal people of Utah, as they
have bitterly disappointed the Mormons
and their political ally, the Republican
organ of Salt Lake City. If Mr.. Dickson
believes in the sincerity of his party or
gan in its professions of indignation at
his removal, we'll may he exclaim,
'Save me from my friends" The
DEMOCRAT candidly admits that it is dis
appointed in the appointment of an
eastern man instead of Utah attorney
1t had reason for the belief that a we'll
known Democratic lawyer, of acknowl-
edged, loyalty and ability would have
been selected This would have been
in accordance with the platform upon
which the President was elected, and
we deprecate any and all departures
from its provisions. In justice to the
Administration, however, it must be ad-
mitted that those he has sent here from
the East have proven themselves worthy
of their trusts, and have discharged their